That seems like it would make the most sense, except perhaps the devs are worried that reducing the range of the high tech turrets invalidates the extra cost/research to make them instead of advanced turrets?

To me the idea of being able to insta-pop anyone who jumps onto your island is a little worrying, and expanding the no build zone around the TPs seems like the best solution. Just a shame that it wasn't figured out before the patch really

Besides that, i did have one idea whilst listening to the conference. And it's not fully fleshed out so i expect it to be shot down immediately ;

What if you could choose to put your buildings into a sort of 'protected mode' similar to the reinforced mode. Whilst in protected mode buildings cannot be harmed, but they also cannot be used by the owner corp. So if a corp has a timezone with very low playerbase they can put the buildings into protection during that time, and sleep soundly. Obviously there would have to be several limits on the use of protection mode:

1) You can have a building in protected mode for a maximum amount of time (say 24h) and there is a cooldown before it can be used again, either a fixed time (12h?) or proportional to the amount of time it was protected last (50%?)

2) It takes an amount of time to activate/deactivate (30mins or something)

3) Whilst protected ALL functions of a building stop working. So you would be locked out of a protected main terminal and unable to mine with a protected mining tower. I'm not too well versed in how each gamma structure works so this may be impossible. I'm just spitballing here

Basically it would mean that corporations could avoid being alarmclocked and could have a chance to defend on their own terms. They could sleep easy knowing their base will still be there when they wake up.

Anyway there are probably a million problems with what i just said, so fire away

They were somewhat different feats however, as our base was never fortified. Not trolling or anything, just saying the impressive part of Mqx's 'extra curricular' pvp was getting through the defenses, which was not something you had to worry about with ours lol.

Statecorp would be more than happy to welcome you in if you are interested; We're a relatively new corp, with people involved in both pvp combat and industry, largely capitalist. Friendly guys, not too much smack talking and few bitter veterans

If you're interested jump into the 'rps' channel ingame, or message me, 'mqx' or 'a delicate balance'

Regards,
Gemara, Statecorp

STC getting massacred by NEBs, F-Navy and Remedy on monday night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vX1hXEBmFk

Unfortunately the video is cut short by my untimely death.

I also have a whole bunch of other videos that i may sift through and mould into some discernable form in the future...

I really like the strange names, they give the islands and places character, and make it easier to remember where things are etc. Much more interesting than just number/letter combinations.

+1 this sounds cool

@Dev Gargaj:

Yeah i was wondering how i got my picture up. Gotta get my beautiful face up on these forums Thanks!

Any thoughts on the actual suggestion?

@Arga

I didn't realise you were trolling till you said it was a troll. Stealth troll. Hurts even deeper...

Thank you . Haha but what would a forum be without the trolls?

Just bought 180 days so expect to see me around, making good my investment!